Humor : Sports

In this side-splitting send-up of instructional manuals, Bobby Rusher, a devious, tricky lout on the green, shares his singular strategies and priceless tips that he guarantees you’ll never learn from a golf pro, including: How to hit a ball on the first try How to play your second shot from the Ladies’ Tee without explaining yourself in a falsetto How to estimate the distance the ball would have traveled had it not been unjustly interrupted on its way to where it was supposedly going How to evoke the law of gravity to modify your score How to increase your opponent’s score when you are unable to decrease your own How to handle your opponent’s caddie’s hysterical laughter How to manufacture a good lie in a bad situation How to avoid the water when you lie eight in the bunker From its clever illustrations of duffers at play to its dead-on parody of traditional guides to better golfing, How to Line Up Your Fourth Putt proves once and for all that being bad at golf really is a laughing matter. more...

Price: $14.95

Painstakingly faithful to its title, Kenny Mayne’s book is neither complete nor is it particularly accurate. Ostensibly an A-to-Z encyclopedia of all known sports, many sports are never mentioned. There’s not a word about rugby, volleyball, Roller Derby, swimming, or (shockingly) Basque pelota or shinty. more...

Price: $24.95